Author Archives: RusselRoehling

Eyowyn Vs The Nazgul

I was working on this one for WAAAAAY too long. I originally started this one to enter into a contest, but still wasn’t happy with it when the deadline rolled along. I submitted it, but kept picking at it for months afterwards. It’s mostly watercolor, with a good deal of it painted over in gouache. [...]

Dog Soldiers

This is my favorite werewolf movie. Actually Neil Marshall, the writer/director of this one, has another movie in my top favorite horror movies: The Descent. Which, coincidentally, will be my next illustration in the horror series!

Hellraiser

This is one of the first horror movies that got to me, kinda stuck in my head for days. I remember The Chatterer cenobite creeping me out really bad. And The Butterball cenobite… well I’m pretty sure I knew him in gradeschool, He tried to sell me porno mags he stole from his parents. This [...]

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Friday the 13th these movies hold a place in my heart…. for some odd reason. They’re terrible, but Jason Vorhees is inexplicably my favorite slasher villain. So here’s a tribute! I know I said I’d post one a day… ugh. I started a werewolf piece, after watching Dog Soldiers. The drawing got out of control, [...]

Brains!

I watched Return of the Living Dead last night, and found myself pleasantly surprised. Cheezy as hell of course, being a low budget zombie comedy from the 80′s, but it had some surprisingly good characters, and some great zombie designs. Here’s Tar-man, designed by William Stout I’ll get one horror themed drawing posted daily, until [...]

Creature Feature

I had the creature design bug tonight, so I sketched out this guy. I enjoy doing conceptual art for the hell of it, the ideas about who and what each character or creature is just start flowing as the pencil carves out shapes. I usually have only a very vague idea of what I’ll be [...]

Sketchin’

Here’s a sketch loosely based on a fellow passenger on the B.A.R.T. in Oakland this past week. Myself and a group of friends drove out to Yosemite and hiked up Half-Dome, an 18 mile round trip. Half-dome itself is a super steep tower of granite, and the only way up (minus climbing gear), is a [...]

Hi there everybody. I’ve pretty much gotten the kinks ironed out of this new WordPress website I’ve been messing with the past couple weeks. Tweaking all this code actually makes me glad I pursued programming as a possible career option for a while, because I’d otherwise be lost in a sea of brackets at this [...]